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Calvin & Hobbes Philisophy
various ^ | unsure | Bill Watterson-cartoonist

Posted on 06/30/2005 7:21:20 AM PDT by OB1kNOb

Calvin & Hobbes Philosophy on Liberal Left-wing Pseudo-Intellectual Academia


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KEYWORDS: calvin; calvinandhobbes; funny; hobbes; laughfortheday; turass; witty
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Everyone needs to laugh each day - otherwise we start taking life too seriously, so let's laugh @ the dimlibs, just don't turn your back on them. :-)

1 posted on 06/30/2005 7:21:22 AM PDT by OB1kNOb
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To: OB1kNOb

I'm laughing at your spelling of Philosophy

It's spelled "colostomy".


2 posted on 06/30/2005 7:23:01 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: OB1kNOb

Our sons read (and re-read) Calvin & Hobbes just about daily. At 9 and 12, they are exposed to a lot of political drivel at school. Calvin & Hobbes provides them with a great antidote, to say nothing of excellent vocabulary!


3 posted on 06/30/2005 7:24:33 AM PDT by Think free or die
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To: OB1kNOb
Shame that Watterston holstered his pen. I always did like Calvin and Hobbes.
4 posted on 06/30/2005 7:25:01 AM PDT by Bombardier (Scratch a Democrat, find a traitor. There are NO good Democrats. Period.)
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To: Think free or die

And do they play Calvinball?


5 posted on 06/30/2005 7:27:37 AM PDT by Gefreiter ("Are you drinking 1% because you think you're fat?")
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To: OB1kNOb
Everyone needs to laugh each day - otherwise we start taking life too seriously, so let's laugh @ the dimlibs, just don't turn your back on them. :-)

OK....

6 posted on 06/30/2005 7:28:19 AM PDT by pookie18 (Clinton Happens...as does Dr. Demento Dean, Bela Pelosi & Benedick Durbin!!)
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To: Bombardier

Bill Watterson grew up in my hometown of Chagrin Falls, OH. Great guy; so is his father, who I believe still services on the Village Council.

I miss Calvin & Hobbes.


7 posted on 06/30/2005 7:29:39 AM PDT by GianniV
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To: AppyPappy

Oops. Just shows what one little letter can do.


8 posted on 06/30/2005 7:31:15 AM PDT by OB1kNOb (I just want to celebrate another day of living. I just want to celebrate life. - Rare Earth rocked)
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To: Think free or die

It will always remain one of my favorite strips. Watterson had such a way of getting across a message through a funny comic strip.


9 posted on 06/30/2005 7:33:38 AM PDT by OB1kNOb (I just want to celebrate another day of living. I just want to celebrate life. - Rare Earth rocked)
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To: GianniV

Me too... (sniff).

I wonder what B. Watterson is doing with his talent now.


10 posted on 06/30/2005 7:34:35 AM PDT by little jeremiah (A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, are incompatible with freedom. P. Henry)
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To: SandyInSeattle; Petronski; Lijahsbubbe; Tabi Katz; cyborg; Slings and Arrows

ping


11 posted on 06/30/2005 7:35:14 AM PDT by Do not dub me shapka broham (Moldau)
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To: Bombardier

I agree. Watterson could convey more in a simple comic strip than most editorial writers can ever express.


12 posted on 06/30/2005 7:35:49 AM PDT by OB1kNOb (I just want to celebrate another day of living. I just want to celebrate life. - Rare Earth rocked)
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To: OB1kNOb
The greatness that was Calvin and Hobbes is summed up in this particular strip. Any daily comic strip that can use phrases like The dynamics of interbeing and monological imperatives in Dick and Jane: A study in psychic transrelational gender modes goes into the cartoon pantheon alongside the likes of Bugs Bunny introducing kids to classical music.
13 posted on 06/30/2005 7:35:50 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (Register to vote as a Dem! You get to vote in their primaries and it screws up their polling data!)
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To: Bombardier
Me too. I liked the one where the father is explaining to Calvin that the world didn't come into color until the 1930s. Paintings before that time became colorized but movies before that time didn't because they were photos of a black and white world. I can't wait to use that on my own kids.
14 posted on 06/30/2005 7:36:52 AM PDT by stevio (Red-Blooded American Male (NRA))
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To: pookie18

Pookie......you do brighten my day with your wonderful daily post. Keep up the great work. Bless you.


15 posted on 06/30/2005 7:38:00 AM PDT by OB1kNOb (I just want to celebrate another day of living. I just want to celebrate life. - Rare Earth rocked)
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To: Gefreiter
"And do they play Calvinball?"

I don't know. It's possible that they call it something else. I've not heard them mention it, but they sometimes devolve into "Brother-speak" and I don't know what they're talking about.

16 posted on 06/30/2005 7:38:26 AM PDT by Think free or die
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To: GianniV

Whatever happened to Bill and why did he stop such a great comic strip in 1995?


17 posted on 06/30/2005 7:42:34 AM PDT by OB1kNOb (I just want to celebrate another day of living. I just want to celebrate life. - Rare Earth rocked)
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To: OB1kNOb
It will always remain one of my favorite strips. Watterson had such a way of getting across a message through a funny comic strip.

And the real beauty is that, like Peanuts, they're timeless -- they're as funny and penetrating now as they were when first published.

Compare and contrast to, e.g., Bloom County, which was great for its time, but didn't age well at all.

18 posted on 06/30/2005 7:42:38 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: Personal Responsibility

Precisely. On both counts.


19 posted on 06/30/2005 7:43:23 AM PDT by OB1kNOb (I just want to celebrate another day of living. I just want to celebrate life. - Rare Earth rocked)
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Whatever happened to Bill and why did he stop such a great comic strip in 1995?

IIRC, he wanted to stop before he started rehashing old material.

20 posted on 06/30/2005 7:44:33 AM PDT by r9etb
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